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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[2»<« S. Tin. Dec. 10. '59. 



cer's Discourses upon Diverse Petitions delivered 

 into the Hands of King James and Charles, 4to., 

 1641 (quoted from Oldys' MS. notes upon Lang- 

 baine, in the Variorum Shakspeare, iii. 148.) we 

 read that : — 



" John Wilson, a cunning musician, contrived a curious 

 comedy, which being acted on a Sundaij night after that 

 John bishop of Lincoln had consecrated the earl of Cleave- 

 land's sumptuous chapel, the said John Spencer (newly 

 made the bishop's commissary general) did present the 

 said bishop at Huntingdon for suffering the said comedj^ 

 to be acted in his house on a Sunday, though it was nine 

 o'clock at night; also Sir Sj'dney Montacute and his 

 lady, Sir Thomas Iladley and his ladj-. Master Wilson, 

 and others, actors of the same ; and because they did not 

 appear, he sentenced the bishop to build a school at 

 Eaton, and endow it with 20Z. a j-ear for a master ; Sir 

 Sydney Montacute to give five pounds and five coats to 

 five poor women, and his lady five pounds and five gowns 

 to five poor widows; and the censure (says he) stands 

 yai unrepealed." 



The mention in this extract of John Wilson is 

 peculiarly interesting, as adding another link to 

 the chain already woven, that the " Jack Wilson" 

 of Shakspeare's stage, and John Wilson the 

 " cunning musician," were one and the same 

 person. Edwabd F. Rimbault. 



Monumental Brasses subsequent to 1688 (P' S. 

 vi. 149.) — In S.John's Maddermarket Church, 

 Norwich, are three eighteenth century monu- 

 mental brass inscriptions. 



1. William Adamson, eighteen years rector of 

 the parish, who died 1707. 



2. Mary, his wife, who died 1706. 



3. John Melchior, Sen', died 12 March, 170^, 

 and Cornelius Melchior, died 13 March, 1713. 



Nos. 1. and 2. were engraved at the same time: 

 No. 2. runs thus : — 



" And under his Coffin ly^ih 

 Mary his wife, who dyed 

 Dec. 21). 1706, 

 Aged 72 5'ear3." 



In the chancel of SB, Peter and Paul Mancroft 

 13 another to the memory of Jo. Dersley and his 

 wife. He died 1708. J. L'Estrange. 



Rubbings of Brasses (2""^ S. viii. 292.) — I do 

 not think E. Y. Lowne will find any preparation 

 necessary to preserve heel-ball rubbings from 

 brasses, &c. I have now before me one made in 

 '47 in quite as .good a state as when removed 

 from the engraved plate. I would advise E. Y. 

 Lowne not to fold his rubbings, as it would pre- 

 serve them from being torn if he mounted them 

 on stout paper or linen. Extraneus. 



Bearded Women (2"^ S. viii. 247. 333.) — I send 

 you a copy of a handbill in my possession relative 

 to Mademoiselle Lefort : — 

 " No. 8. Gerard Street, Soho. 



"Facts! Amazing Facts! Never exhibited in Eng- 

 land, JIademoisello Lefort, a first-rate Phenomenon of 

 French production, in whom the sexes are so equally 



i it is impossible to say which has the pre- 

 This is one of the instances where Nature, 



blended that 

 dominance. 



stepping out of her usual Track, produces to the Won- 

 dering World a magnet of irresistible and universal 

 attraction. The hands, arms, feet, and bust possess per- 

 fect Feminine Beauty, likewise the upper part of the 

 Face ; the lower part is also beautiful, but possessing the 

 Masculine Accompaniments of Beard, Mustachoes, and 

 Whiskers. The curious must be amply gratified by the 

 contrasted beauties of her Person, the religious must be 

 struck with saored awe, and, while in astonishment they 

 contemplate Nature's Works, will raise their minds' to 

 Nature's God! but to the faculty it has, and ever will be, 

 an inexhaustible source of Professional inquiry. — N.B. 

 Ladies may divest themselves of apprehension, as the 

 exhibition is conducted with the strictest delicacy. Ad- 

 mittance 2s. 6d each. Will receive companv from One 

 till Ten." 



Edward Hailstone. 

 Ilorton Hall. 



Lomax or Lomas (2"'' S. viii. 415.) — It may 

 perhaps be useful to Mr. M. A. Lower to know- 

 that the above name was written Lummas in the 

 early part of the seventeenth century. It was so 

 entered in the will of Mr. Arthur Hildersham, 

 rector of Ashby-de-la-Zouch in 1630; and also 

 in the registers of that place in 1627, on the occa- 

 sion of the marriage of his daughter Sara to a 

 Mr. Jervase Lummas, who seems to have belonged 

 to the county Salop. This spelling was changed 

 soon afterwards ; for the marriage of a daughter 

 of Sara and Jervase was thus entered in the West 

 Felt on church registers, — 



"1653. Mr, Francis Tallents, publique Preacher, and 

 Mrs. Anne Lomax, niece to Mr. Hildersham, Kector of 

 West Felton." 



This Mr. Hildersham was Samuel, son of Arthur. 

 If Mr. M. a. Lower possesses any information 

 respecting this Mr. Jervase Lummas or Lomax or 

 his descendants, and would kindly communicate 

 it, I should feel very much obliged to him. 



T. E. S. 



This surname, and its vernacular pronunciation 

 L3mas, has long been associated with South Lan- 

 cashire. The ancient orthography appears in a 

 MS. Rent Roll of Sir John Pilkington of Bury, 

 Knight, dated on Thursday next before the feast of 

 S. Valentine the Martyr, 13 Henry VL, wherein oc- 

 cur, " Radus del Lumhalghes, Oliverus del Lura- 

 halghes, Thomas del Lumhalghe de Whetyll, and 

 Galfridus del Lumhalghes," all holdinglands within 

 the manor of Bury in the co. of Lancaster. 



In a curious and valuabla local article contri- 

 buted by the Rev. Canon Raines to the Chetham 

 Society (^Miscell. Vol. 1855), beiftg "Examyna- 

 tyons towcheynge Cokeye IMore," tpe H. VII., 

 one of the witnesses examined was "Lawrens 

 Lomats of y° :pish of Bolton, of the age of Lxx. 

 5er'." The fam.ily was never heraldic. R. 



" Cuiti7ig ones Stick" (2"^ S. viii. 413.)— This 

 " vulgarism of fast life," as your correspondent 

 calls it, is tantamount to the phrase of " cutting 



